Connecting 2 PCs over Ethernet through Switch

[theyeti87]

Hello.

I have a Windows 10 and a Windows 7 PCs that I need to connect over ethernet through a gigabit switch so as to share data between them.

A little background:
The two PCs are located in our quality control laboratory. Each PC has a specific purpose. The Windows 10 machine is the controlling PC for a mass spectrometer. This PC cannot in any way connect to the outside network, or even our own corporate network. That is where the Windows 7 machine comes into play. This PC is on our corporate network and also the outside web. Its purpose is to be the intermediary for data transfer and backup from instrument control PC (network sensitive) to our local/corporate servers.

The question:

How do I get the two PC's to see each other and share files?

Each PC has 2 NICs. Instrument Control PC communicates with instrument over ethernet, other NIC goes to switch. I am unsure about setting up a homegroup and how that will work with two different network connections.

Any help with this would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[das_stig]

W7 NIC1 corporate network via DHCP
W& NIC2 to siwtch

IP : 192.168.1.1
Subnet : 255.255.255.0
DNS : BLANK
Gateway : BLANK

W10 NIC1 LAB Equipment
W10 NIC2 to switch

IP : 192.168.1.2
Subnet : 255.255.255.0
DNS : BLANK
Gateway : BLANK

Now you can setup shares on W7 machine and connect from the W10.

By rights though, you should be getting approval from your corporate network and security teams, who should be setting this up for you correctly, as you may indivertibly breach GDPR and risk millions in fines for your company.

 

[theyeti87]

W7 NIC1 corporate network via DHCP
W& NIC2 to siwtch

IP : 192.168.1.1
Subnet : 255.255.255.0
DNS : BLANK
Gateway : BLANK

W10 NIC1 LAB Equipment
W10 NIC2 to switch

IP : 192.168.1.2
Subnet : 255.255.255.0
DNS : BLANK
Gateway : BLANK

Now you can setup shares on W7 machine and connect from the W10.

By rights though, you should be getting approval from your corporate network and security teams, who should be setting this up for you correctly, as you may indivertibly breach GDPR and risk millions in fines for your company.

I am authorized to do this work. I am our production facility's superuser (among many other hats). Basically it's me or they fly someone in from the Phillipines.

Thanks for your response.

 

[failboat]

You can manually assign each an ip. then you should be able to ping the other one.

You can probably find a tutorial on file share windows->windows.

 

[theyeti87]

For the purposes I need to achieve, I have taken the networking switch out of the equation entirely.

Basically all I needed was to be able to transfer excel files from one PC to the other, without having our chemists plug/unplug usb drives on a daily basis.

What I have come up with is utilizing an external HDD as an intermediary for data, plugged into the KVM switch the 2 PCs share. Much easier that way.

Thanks everyone.

 

[kanewolf]

If the Windows 7 PC has an unused NIC already, then you would cable that to the switch the Control PC is on. Set the NICs to a unique private network 10.x.y.z or 192.168.x.y. There is still some risk of the Control PC being compromised. The best answer is still "sneaker net" with virus scanned USB media.